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Saturday, 2 March 2013

A new start

A new project - "In the time of Toile" quilt kit (by Froncie Quinn). I was very lucky winning this from Sue . Thanks so much to Sue for her generosity!
Just look at the lovely fabrics here...

I particularly like the red toile and the florals. A couple of small pieces of this line are already in my stash - which might come in handy for the quilt. But no more of the red toile.

And this is the pattern:

To make a start I decided to fussy cut the toile to make the four corner blocks around the centre . It is a large scale print with few repeats so was going to be tricky to select pieces to use. I wanted to have a bird in each corner.

These "tools" were invaluable: a homemade template of the corner block and a packet of kebab sticks...

got you guessing?

I only had one template so the kebab sticks just marked possible placements before drawing/cutting - bit crude but it worked a treat:

Only two large birds on the piece of fabric, and a few littlies

Next - the Applique basket :

I have substituted a different yellow for the base as the one in the pack is a little "muddy" for me.

The red top of the basket (and flowers) is all one piece of fabric cut from the border print - very clever use of the fabric I thought - well done Froncie!

Basket cut from border fabric - ready to needle turn applique

Applique done

Next - Broderie Perse flowers and leaves:

I cut pieces out of the floral fabric and some of the individual flowers from the border print and dithered around with placement - fun to do but took a while. Then I tacked them down very roughly with large stitches :

Tacking stitch placement ready to applique

Bit of a tentative placement - might change a bit as I sew. There are 12 seperate pieces of fabric tacked on there so this could be fiddly with the needleturn applique! Wish me luck...

What a treat on starting the day! This looks absolutely wonderful, and I can't wait to see your progress. I certainly wish you luck for the needleturn - it looks tricky, but I'm sure you will do it fine!

What a spectacular project! So reminicent of the pre-1830's era of quilting. The fabric just makes me drool. You are doing a fabulous job with the broiderie perse - that is one technique I've hardly ever done. Lucky you winning this - it will be so much fun watching your progress.

LOVE your new start and especially the red toile fabric. This kit has found the perfect owner. It's great to see your broderie perse process as I have been working on my broderie perse Morrell blocks this week - what a happy coincidence :)

You are getting to play with such gorgeous fabrics!! Great tip about the bamboo skewers, I cut out freezer paper shapes to do a similar thing. It's wonderful to see your process with the Broderie perse. It's all looking beautiful!

You left such a sweet comment on my weblog, so I visited yours and.... nearly fellfrom my chair! Such stunning projects you are doing, and all of them so beautifullymade. I hope you understand my English and also, my spelling will be correct, buthere from Holland I want to give you a great compliment for your wonderful work!(I will put your blog in my reading-list as well, so I do not have to miss anyblogpost of you...)Kind regards from Ageeth, from Holland